Are prochlorophytes cyanobacteria?
The prochlorophytes are a diverse group of photosynthetic prokaryotes that fall within the cyanobacterial lineage, yet lack phycobilisomes as light harvesting structures. Instead, the prochlorophytes have a light-harvesting apparatus composed of the higher plant pigments chlorophylls a and b. What are characteristics of Prochlorophyceae? Because prochlorophytes carry out oxygen-evolving photosynthesis, they may be considered algae….